I was able to get the EN versions downloaded. Executive summary, appendices and the introduction slides. I put them here. http://www.simplyinfo.org/?page_id=6609 Anyone is free to view, share, swipe, repost on their site or whatever. I read through them today. The evacuees comments are really sad. The workers comments surprised me how frustrated and screwed over many of them felt. Their feelings are understandable, I didn't realize exactly how bad they were being treated, even TEPCO employees.

I've posted how badly TEPCO workers were treated by ordinary citizens in the community.

I also read TEPCO's report (supplement) detailing the workers' recollection of the first 5 days of the accident. After reading it, I decided former PM Kan had absolutely no business going there on March 12 and shouting at the plant management out of his ignorance, while the workers were barely breathing and moving, stunned at what was happening.

Let's not forget former PM Kan ordered Tepco to keep workers at Fukushima: if the whole crisis business had been left in the hands of Tepco alone by now Tokyo might be as contaminated as Fukushima.The idea of entrusting totally the management of nuclear crisis to electric utilities and their regulatory bodies (the same who could not prevent the crisis in the first place) is nonsense.Kan got no help from Tepco (they denied the meltdown for a whole month!) nor from Madarame and his useless commission so a little frustration on his side is understandable.

Sorry, should read: Kan reported he was not getting any help from Tepco (after all they denied the meltdowns for nearly a month) nor from Madarame and his commission.

Even if Kan mistreated a little the workers this can not be nearly as bad as sending them to work without dosimeters of failing to perform mandatory health checks or failing to put in place countermeasures to prevent a crisis that was described as man made by the diet commission and then having the workers put their health at risk to contain the crisis fallout, as Tepco has done.Beppe

Beppe, TEPCO did not deny the core melt, neither did NISA. Particularly NISA, whose spokesman said "core melt" possibility on March 12, 2012, before Reactor 1 bldg blew up. TEPCO said there are holes at the bottom of the Pressure Vessel, in March.

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